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Topic: Open sugar US, UK or Europe? (Read 3195 times)

I presume this is an open sugar, but I'm puzzled as to where it originates or how old it is. It's very nice quality.

I think it's moulded, as there are seams under the handles on the outside. The inside, however as been rounded off, as there are no seams to be felt and no hexagonal shaping, just gentle undulations.

The glass is quite thick: 0.4 cm at its thinnest and about 1.5 cm on the points at the bottom ridge. The base has a pressed 36 pt star. It appears to have had some fire polishing - there are no seams to be felt on the top of the handles, just small indentations.

It's heavy 460g and measures 14 cm handle to handle, 7.5 cm across the bowl and 7.5 cm tall. There's wear on the base but no damage. The glass is what I call 'bright', no coloration.

Thanks all. I'd already decided it wasn't Chippendale, it's quite different in the flesh, even the glass seems different to any Davidson Chippendale I've fondled. I shall await Connie's return home.

Anne thank you for your thumbnail lesson, as you see wrestled with applying it to Photobucket, applied it and written it down for future reference. We could do with having the sticky title edited to be more general - Frank, Paradise Trader?

Chris, I note what you say about the base star, and have considered this as well in looking at my Chippendale and Chippendale lookalikes. But (there's always a but isn't there?!)... looking at my copy of the 1930's Davidson catalogue I see a trinket tray which does have a star base with equal length points... was that the only such star they did in this way or could there have been others which had the same bases?

I also noted in the Central Glass Works Chippendale catalogue no. 41 (dated 1919) there are items with both the equal star and the unequal star base shown.

This is confusing the heck out of me as I'd happily been looking at unequal stars and thinking Davidson, but now that seems to have been blown out of the water by the 1919 catalogue.